State v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2007
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · 412 So. 2d 507 - State v. Humphrey · 406 So. 2d 1331 - State v. Edwards · 438 So. 2d 1091 - State v. Johnson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. See State v. Captville, 448 So.2d 676 (La.1984); State v. Butler, 462 So.2d 1280 (La.App. 5 Cir.1985). Furthermore, when reviewing the propriety of jury charges, the Louisiana Supreme Court has consistently held that a jury charge must be considered as a whole, and particular expressions in a charge must be construed in the context of the entire charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a requested special charge shall be given by the court if it does not require qualification, limitation or explanation and if it is wholly correct and pertinent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““More importantly, the court has held that a defendant who does not receive the death penalty has no valid complaint. State v. Edwards, 406 So.2d 1331 (La.1981), State v. Whitt, 404 So.2d 254 (La.1981), and State v. George, 371 So.2d 762 (La.1979). We find this line of cases dispositive of the instant one. In those three cases, the defendant could have received the death penalty but instead received life imprisonment. This is exactly what happened to Butler. Upon his conviction of first degree murder, he was eligible for the death penalty but was instead sentenced to life imprisonment. Thus, because he received a life sentence, he cannot complain of the impartiality of the jury as to imposition of sentence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McFall
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.